Live by the creed that a strong work ethic, playing by the rules, and doing things the right way will bring about opportunities for success and, ultimately, happiness.
A good process produces good results.
Teaching is the ability to inspire learning.
Do what you do and be who you are.
High achievers don’t like mediocre people, mediocre people don’t like high achievers.
I’ve always been able to stay focused on trying to recruit good players and trying to develop those players.
I asked my priest if it was a sin to play golf on Sunday. And he said, “It’s a sin for you to play anytime.”
Our goal is to work against things we have not seen that we will see in the near future.
I don’t control what people put on dot-com or anything else. So I’m just telling you there’s no significance, in my opinion, about this, about me, about any interest that I have in anything other than being the coach here.
I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
Focus on the play like it has a history and a life of its own.
You can’t get from A to Z by passing up B.
I think everybody makes mistakes. People do things that they regret.
I don’t think it’s about who you play, I think it’s about who you are.
Anyone who doesn’t win their conference has no business playing in the national championship game.
The thing that concerns me the most is when I hear that people are making a lot of money a lot of ways except for the athletes, whether it’s on the bowl games, the TV contracts, the conferences, the schools, the coaches, however you want to say it.
The difference nowadays is that when I go on vacation I work some of the time rather than all of the time.
I don’t like to lose. I don’t expect to lose.
I think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.
College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.
Any team that does not win it’s conference championship game should not play in the BCS title game.